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24Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: Special day wins support <return to top>
HORNSBY residents and business owners can take a bow after raising nearly $30,000 for the NSW Bushfire Appeal at Westfield last Saturday.
Westfield Hornsby centre manager Therese Keys said the day featured concerts by Killing Heidi, Leah Haywood and Selwyn of Popstars fame.
Ms Keys said 142 items were auctioned. The total amount raised was $29,200.75 including $21,159 on auction goods and $285.30 in customer donations. Businesses made up the balance.
Ms Keys said the top three auction items were a library of assorted books from Borders Books Music Cafe which went for $900; an Alex Lloyd autographed guitar from Garrison Guitars which went for $900 and a Panasonic VS5 video camera from Paxtons which went for $850.
"The support from Hornsby retailers, local business and customers was overwhelming," Ms Keys said.
(c) 2002 Nationwide News Pty Limited
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Source: HORNSBY ADVOCATE 24/01/2002 P9

23Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: FECS auction <return to top>
NORTHSIDE Family and Early Childhood Services (FECS) support group will hold its Art Meets Sport celebrity auction at Brisbane City Hall on March 22.
Memorabilia will include items from the world's fastest man, Maurice Greene, Australian athletes Tatiana Grigorieva and Betty Cuthbert and rock group Killing Heidi.
Northside FECS treats 160 disabled infants and toddlers from an area which covers Karana Downs through to Caboolture and includes Redcliffe.
The fundraiser will collect money for video equipment to let working parents watch their children's daytime therapy sessions.
Auction tickets cover cocktail food, wine, beer and soft drinks. Cost is $40 or $35 for groups of 10 or more.
Phone Sharon 3314 7334 or Frances 3857 2586.
(c) 2002 Nationwide News Pty Limited
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Source: NORTHSIDE CHRONICLE 23/01/2002 P2

20Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: Band dedicates song to fire victims <return to top>
THE residents of Cross St, Warrimoo, have been visited by a premier and a prince in the wake of the Black Christmas fires.
Yesterday, their experience became even more surreal when they had a song, Heaven Sent, dedicated to them.
Rock band Killing Heidi and a group of other musicians performed a free concert to raise funds for bushfire victims.
Hundreds of fans crammed into the open forecourt at Hornsby's Westfield shopping centre and heard Killing Heidi's lead singer, Ella Hooper, dedicate their new single to the street, where eight houses were destroyed.
"They're just such brave souls," she said.
"We went down to meet some people whose homes had been damaged by the fires and that made me really determined to do as much as I could."
The concert and a charity auction helped raise almost $30,000 for the Salvation Army's Bushfire Appeal.
(c) Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd, 2002.

Source: SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (AUSTRALIA) 20/01/2002 P7

19Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: LATEST news regarding the SA <return to top>
By AMY FREEBORN.
LATEST news regarding the SA.FM Save the Murray Sky Show is that joining Killing Heidi for the huge free concert on February 2 will be local girl Candyce and Perth R'n'B artist Selwyn performing his new single Buggin Me. Organisers say the fireworks spectacular and concert will be bigger than ever.
(C) 2002 Advertiser Newspapers Limited.

Source: ADVERTISER (ADELAIDE) 19/01/2002 P31

17Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: Auction will aid victims <return to top>
KILLING Heidi and Leah Haywood will be performing live in Hornsby this Saturday as part of a major fundraiser for victims of the recent bushfires.
The event, hosted by Westfield Hornsby, will begin at 1pm in the Florence St Mall.
It will include a special NSW Bushfire Appeal Auction with money raised being donated to the Salvation Army to distribute to bushfire victims.
Retailers and local business have donated items worth more than $25,000 for the auction.
Among the items are:
* A guitar signed by Alex Lloyd.
* A year's supply of chocolate from Darrell Lea.
* A $2500 Border's Books package.
* An Ericsson Blue Tooth Limited Edition and two Ericsson A3618 mobile phones worth $1229 from Optus World.
* Dr John Morris Dental Surgery whitening treatments worth $1200.
* Four Levis Original vintage jeans worth $1680 from General Pants and Levis.
* Four three-month gym memberships worth $1200 from Hornsby World of Fitness.
(c) 2002 Nationwide News Pty Limited
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Source: HORNSBY ADVOCATE 17/01/2002 P7

17Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: q&a.Ella Hooper is out of damage-control mode and back in the studio <return to top>
By CAMERON ADAMS.
Ella Hooper is out of damage-control mode and back in the studio after a throat operation last year threatened to end her career. She talks to CAMERON ADAMS about the future..

How is progress on the new Killing Heidi album going? I'm really powering through the songs. I thought it'd take ages. I sang for seven days in a row last week for the first time in a long while.
You were the weakest link in Killing Heidi for a while, weren't you, because you couldn't sing after your throat operation and the album just needed vocals. Totally! The vocals are all that is left to do, but it's going well. Really well for us is a song a day and we've only been at it a week. In a couple of weeks we'll be done.
Any favourites? Amyl. The more it gets produced, the catchier it sounds. It's going off.
Is the album still called Damage Control? Nah, not sure. We shouldn't have opened our big mouths. I don't think we want to call it that any more.
And there are no more throat issues? No, it's really good. It's so much better than it was.
You recently played shows in Timor. How was that? It was an amazing, full-on experience. For the first few days I wasn't sure what we were doing there, but by the end we didn't want to leave. I always knew there were a lot of other things going on in the world, but it does put into perspective how tiny our problems are and how huge some other countries are. There's so much to be done there. It was a real eye-opener.
You're also playing the Rockalonga festival in Yarrawonga next week. Is that close to Violet Town? It's not far, maybe an hour away. So not really, but anywhere in the country feels like home because we're country kids. We played it the year before last, it was great.
Are regional crowds different? I think so. They're happy to see bands because the cities get a lot more traffic coming through musically. I think they appreciate it a bit more.
Your 19th birthday is looming. What are you doing to celebrate? I don't want the teens to end. I don't ever want to be 20! I think it'll be quiet this year, maybe at my mum's house with some girlfriends having a tea party in the garden. Or I really want to have a fairy party, like little girls do, where everyone has to wear dresses and carry wands. That'd be cool.
Are you keeping an eye on the chart progress of Heavensent? Not at all, (but) I know it's not rocketing up the charts.
Does that bother you? No. I'm so absorbed with the album as a whole. I think people like it. I don't think people aren't responding to the song, it's just not being reflected in the charts. I think it might take a while ... Weir took a while to go nuts ... or it might not be a chart song.
Is it a good reality check not automatically being in the Top 10? Definitely, but I was always aware that it wasn't a reality for most people. I was constantly reminded that's not normal.
Are you worried about a backlash or being seen as a novelty? I think if people felt like that it wouldn't be on the radio so much. I think people are realising there's more to us.
Is there anything on the new album that will shock fans? Maybe not shock, maybe challenge or educate. That's the phrasing I'd use. I hope people like it. It's not a whole world away from Reflector, but it is definitely more evolved, more mature, a little harder-edged.
And there's a 2002 reworking of your first big song, Kettle ... It's completely different. It's still Kettle, but it's gone from this little acoustic ditty to a big rock song with a grand finale.
What was the last album you bought? I bought Jamiroquai (A Funk Odyssey) for a friend. The last I received was The Strokes album (Is This It). I love it, it hasn't really left my CD player, it's driving my friends crazy. It's so raw.
What song do you wish you'd written? Every Bob Dylan song, especially Ballad in Plain D. It's amazing, but I couldn't really have written it because it's from a guy's perspective.
Is there a song of yours you're least proud of now? I think they're all a means to an end. A lot of the songs on Reflector sound really distant to me now. I can't relate to some of the angry love songs (about) people from Year 9. I can't even remember their names now, but I've written a song about them. The first song I wrote makes me cringe. I wrote it when I was 11, it was about war and went, `War is bad, love is good, la-la-la'.
What was the last thing you wrote a song about? Sweet is about Aboriginal issues and getting them back into public awareness because they keep slipping off the agenda. It's disgusting. We have to get back to recognising this country is inhabited by Koori people.
Heavensent (Wah Wah/Sony) out now. Killing Heidi, Rockalonga, Yarrawonga Showgrounds, Jan 26, $60.05, Ticketmaster7.
(C) 2002 Herald and Weekly Times Limited.

Source: HERALD SUN 17/01/2002 P33

14Jan2002 - The Killing Heidi Realm: Fox beach concert report <return to top>
The first of three beach concerts hosted by The Fox kicked of yesterday (Sunday, the 13th). Killing Heidi headlined, and dispite Ella's recovering throat, still managed to put on a great show, the setlist as follows..
Burnt - Live Without It - Sad (Real People) - A Jar Labelled Small - Take It Away - Heavensent - 'Nutha Fucken Love Song - Weir - Fly - ..and Mascara.

Exclusive photos coming soon!
Meanwhile, you can check out the photos on the Fox.com.au site at http://www.fox.com.au/promotions/2002/beachphotos/index.html.

14Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: News And Features - Talents of performers to the fore as many help to fill appeal coffers <return to top>
By Vanessa Wilson.
DONATIONS BUSHFIRES THE AFTERMATH
..Channel 7 will start a State Government-endorsed bushfire appeal tonight.
Elsewhere in the state, promoter Peter Mogg of the Rockalonga rock festival at Yarrawonga has pledged 10 per cent of the takings from the Australia Day event. He expects up to 10,000 tickets to be sold. Bands performing will also donate a percentage of their fee, including Aria award-winners Killing Heidi and singer Alex Lloyd..

11Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: Cut is no music to frontman's ears <return to top>
By FAY BURSTIN.
KILLING Heidi frontman Jesse Hooper yesterday attacked the State Government's funding cut to the FReeZA youth entertainment program, saying it would leave a gaping hole for kids in the country.
Hooper, 21, who credits the FReeZA and Push programs with giving his and teenage sister Ella's chart-topping band its earliest breaks in Violet Town, said the $300,000 funding cut would be devastating for Victorian regional youth.
"The Government should be putting more funding into these activities, not less, and encouraging kids to enjoy their own towns instead of forcing them to move to the city," he said. "And with less to do, kids are more likely to play up and turn to crime and drugs."
Youth Affairs Minister Justin Madden revealed last month that the half-yearly funding for FReeZA's drug and alcohol-free youth entertainment program would be cut from $1 million to $700,000.
Opposition youth spokesman Ian Cover said FReeZA events helped young Victorians develop leadership skills and community awareness as well as giving them a safe and healthy environment to have fun.
"The Government's funding cut is an outrageous failure to recognise FReeZA's success in giving young people an outlet and keeping them away from anti-social activities," he said.
A spokeswoman for Mr Madden, Ilsa Colson, said the funding was a result of some money being left unspent because some committees did not carry out their quota of events.
(C) 2002 Herald and Weekly Times Limited.

Source: HERALD SUN 11/01/2002 P13

10Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: Quest-ions answered <return to top>
By Amanda Gaffney.
..We hear Frenzal Rhomb, Sum 41 and Killing Heidi have all signed on the dotted line to play shows in the heart of Surfers in the next couple of months..
(c) 2002 Nationwide News Pty Limited.

Source: GOLD COAST BULLETIN 10/01/2002

09Jan2002 - AUSTRALIA: THE NEW WAVE <return to top>
By PETA HELLARD AND LUKE DENNEHY.
LIFE'S a beach for Ella Hooper, from Killing Heidi, and Chilli, from new act Space Like Alice.
The pair, who have had an amazing rollercoaster ride fronting two of Melbourne's hottest bands, took time out of their busy schedules to hit the beach yesterday with Fox FM's Tracy Bartram.
Both bands will be taking part in the Fox Big M Beach Concert at the Rosebud Pier Foreshore on Sunday from 2pm.
The free two-hour event, which attracted more than 10,000 fans last year, will also feature singer Deni Hines.
Ella returned to the studio just two days ago after a throat operation to finish the vocals on Killing Heidi's follow-up album.
"We'll be finished work on it in about a month, and it should be out probably in March," the 18-year-old said.
"The album is still very Killing Heidi but it's far more evolved and more mature and not as bang-bang in your face."
For Chilli and his bandmates the beach gig will be their biggest to date.
"The largest crowd we've played to so far is 600," he said.
"But I'm not nervous, just excited."
The group, whose hit single Compensate recently shot them from obscurity, may seem like an overnight success story but they've been together five years, with Chilli saying it has been a hard slog.
"Someone had sent a tape of the song into Triple M for the station's homegrown show," the 25-year-old said.
"We didn't even know they had the tape, and Scotty (guitarist) and I just happened to be listening that night when our song came on and we couldn't believe it."
(C) 2002 Herald and Weekly Times Limited.

Source: HERALD SUN 09/01/2002 P20

xxJan2002 - The Killing Heidi Realm: Killing Heidi to Rock-alonga Festival <return to top>
Killing Heidi have been announced as the headlining band to perform at next years Rockalonga Festival, being held at Yarrawonga on the 26th of Jan, 2002.

The curent line-up is as follows:
05.00 to 05.30 Local TBC
05.45 to 06.30 Local TBA
06.45 to 07.30 Space Like Alice
07.45 to 08.30 Lash
08.45 to 09.45 Alex Lloyd
10.00 to 11.00 Jebediah
11.30 to 12.30 Killing Heidi

Tickets are $55 from the usual outlets; more information to be posted as in comes known.